BTex

What is it? :
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Btex (for 'Bottom TEXture') is a very lightweight addon for World Of Warcraft providing Background texture at the bottom of the screen.
It contains a package of pre-made skins, a simple menu for settings skins, texture height,width,transparency,colors, positions, viewport,etc ..

What can it do? :
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- Put a texture of your choice on the bottom of the screen via menu options (use /bx menu or /btex menu),
- Set height/width/transparency/position/colors/layer of your texture,
- Use any other TGA/BLP texture file or any other 'pack' of skin,
- Display a grid to setup your interface correctly,
- Modify the 3D rendering area with viewport function,
- Work in any resolution,
- Low memory usage & standalone addon (no libs or dependency are needed).

Contribute :
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Just use http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7906.html using the provided forms(comments tab) or send me a PM on wowinterface.
I'm looking for artists and someone to translate the remaining languages.

How do I use it?
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First unzip it into your interface\addons directory. For more info on installing, please read install.txt.
Now just run WoW and once logged in, type '/bx menu' to get the options screen and choose a skin.

Support :
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Please post all errors and suggestions on http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7906.html using comments tab, or send me a PM on wowinterface.

FAQ :
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How do I run menu config ? type "/bx Menu" or "/Btex menu" in the chat windows.
Why the download is so big ? it's because it contain many images.
How do i load custom skins? Copy TGA or BLP files to /interface/btex/skins/ directory, and use the "custom texture" options on the top dropdown menu. Write name file without

the end "-1.tga". Exemple: for 'blabla' skin, you have 4 tga named blabla-1.tga, blabla-2.tga. Write 'blabla' in the custom name.
Do the skin support transparency ? yes. Via images files and via WOW API.
Can i use BLP file? Yes. use custom load skin, and do like with any other tga file.
Is there any PSD template i can use to make my own skin ? :Sure, just go to : http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11906-BtexPSDforskinmaking.html I recommand using The

GIMP or if you have money Photoshop CS4.
BUT, remember to share !
How can i share my artwork ? : create an account on wowinterface then upload it here as a plugin : http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7906-BTex.html#optional

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* Version History : *
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V2.9.3 6 February 2010
- Modified function with X and Y placement for main frame. You can now set negative value.

V2.9.1 27 August 2009
- Fixed Chat Window layer(strata) when changing the strata of arts.
- Added skin Demonic (cause its no more aviable to download on curse :s)

V2.9.0 21 August 2009 - **this is a major release before V3.0**
- Added support for position (move main texture anywhere on screen),
- Added support for layer (choose what 'Strata' you want to use),
- Added support for Vertex colors (override colors of textures),
- Added support for Viewport function (resize the game windows size).

v2.3 - 19 November 2008
- added support for multiple character
- corrected "/bt" already used by bartender to "/bx", you can use "/btex" too
- corrected a bug form dropdownUI Menu
- added a new skin : Wall

v2.1 - 5 November 2008
- added support for texture stretch. you can now set Height form 1 to 1200,
- added "no texture" in the dropdown menu,
- added "Load custom skin", where you can put your own pack of skin directly from game, without modifying the LUA code.

Originally posted by stormcryer Not to sound like a complete noob. But How do I use this mod to remove the Blizzard action bars to clean up my screen the mod in the screenshots look beautiful but upon selecting the skin i wanted I am still hampered by the action bars on bottom as well as to the right of the screen.

Is there a way to get the bars with only what spells etc I use display or is that a seperate mod in conjunction with btex?

Hi,

Btex dont remove action bar on bottom screen, you have to use a separate addon like domino or batender. just look for an action bar addon.

Not to sound like a complete noob. But How do I use this mod to remove the Blizzard action bars to clean up my screen the mod in the screenshots look beautiful but upon selecting the skin i wanted I am still hampered by the action bars on bottom as well as to the right of the screen.

Is there a way to get the bars with only what spells etc I use display or is that a seperate mod in conjunction with btex?

Amazing Artwork Serthida..
Everything looks fine as far as you creating and editing them.. scroll down in the forums and read my step by step process if it helps.

Make sure you have each bar correctly sized.. 1024 x 256 or (2048 x 512 for larger scale such as my bars). Use the Crop image each section either 256 x 256 or 512 x 512 (pending on overall image size).

goto channels. click on the alpha selection.

Marque or highlight section you want to be viewed and paint it white.
Save that cropped image in the correct number sequence.

rinse and repeat working from Left to Right in the correct cropped sizes.

I followed Bornabe's tutorial on preserving transparency with a .tga file, but I don't know what's going on, I can't get it to stay transparent on the save. I have an alpha channel with the proper areas masked off, and transparency on the original image, am saving at 32 bit (no compression), and have checked and double checked to see if all of the settings are correct!

If I make a .psd file of my skins, is there anyone else willing to slice them up and save them properly? I'm at my wit's end with this.

ETA: been at it for 2 more hours and there's got to be something I'm missing. At least I'm done making 12 skins though...well, they need to be sliced and saved properly. Anyone?

from here do i change the custom texture line in sequence and so forth?

I gotta feeling its gonna be a long nite doing this LOL...

Again TY Tiggy for the help.. Cant wait to see what ya might do with the skin I posted.

well, you can add more texture instead of replacing like this (change the bold with you number, like 15, 16, etc and so on.. (juste copy and paste at the end after block item 14 --menu item14
info.text = "Demonic"; <== here the name of the new texture
info.value = 14;
info.func = function() BtexDropDownMenuItem_OnClick() end;
info.owner = BtexDropDownMenu;
info.checked = nil;
info.icon = nil;
UIDropDownMenu_AddButton(info, level);

Originally posted by Grandesa I have posted all of my newest creations for Btex. I just want to say thankyou for the help and I hope that these will be beneficial to all those who use this wonderful addon.

This is my newest current project.

If any of you that might have suggestions or want to continue this one and post. I am releasing the image so that you are more then welcome to do with it what you will to make it really great.

Tiggy question.. Is there a way that I can add any of these custom skins, including my own to the default list of skins in the addon?

Sure, but you have to edit lua code. Here is the howto :
1/ Open Btex.lua with notepad (or notepad++)
2/ Search for the line "info.text = "Dark Shadow 1";" and modify it with the name of your skin like this for exemple : info.text = "My Skin yeahhhhh";
/3 Search for the line "TEX_CHOICE = "DS1";" and modify it with the file name of your skin without "-1" like in custom loadinf skin. for exemple TEX_CHOICE = "MySkinFileName";
4/ save file
/5 run wow and your done

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